ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,864, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to HANGZHOU CHIPJET TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Control device, low-ink-amount detection mechanism, ink cartridge and low-ink-amount detection method therefor" was invented by Weiwen Chen (Hangzhou, China), Xijun Jiang (Hangzhou, China) and Heng Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present application are a control device, a low-ink-amount detection mechanism, an ink cartridge and a low-ink-amount detection method therefor. The control device is used for controlling a printer, and comprises a chip and a control unit, the control unit is in electrical c...